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Hi, welcome to my personal blog, I answer to Chris or Cheese. I reblog a lot of fandom stuff, animal facts and once in a blue moon I might actually post something.

[cnestus]

Tetraopes femoratus

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underrated fantasy thing is when authors want to avoid giving an actual earth year their story takes place so the characters say shit like "back in the Year Of The Skateboarding Dragon" and all the other characters are like ah yes how could we forget the crops were so plentiful the year that dragon did those sweet sweet kickflips

[didsomebodysay-kat-aesthetic]

[susiephone]

how dare you be funnier than me on my own post

[onenicebugperday]

Wasp katydid, Aganacris velutina, Tettingoniidae

Found in Central and northern South America, this species of katydid expertly  mimics tarantula hawk wasps in the genus Pepsis, but it is, of course, harmless.

Photographed by Frank Deschandol // Instagram

Photos shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

Tarantula hawk wasp, Pepsis mildei, for comparison:

Photo by leptonia

[pangur-and-grim]

little guy missed his jump

[merulo-pretzel-date]

[paperandpencilsandskips]

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[orcboxer]

tumblr won't let me post this for some reason. must be a glitch or something

[oneheadtoanother]

[stickyfrogs]

Angus has been learning TALL!

[poolboydivision]

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[sunspotpony]

Here’s a community reminder that the New York Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, and is generally considered to be an arm of the far right’s propaganda machine.

They just do a slightly better job of pretending they’re centrist or liberal than Fox News, because their goal is not to sway conservatives, but to sway everyone to the left of the far right.

[no1prussiaglazr]

This phm fanart shi easy what was I on abt

[eggable]

If only there was a word for how long a foot-long hotdog is

[chimaerakitten]

By the end of the series enough people know about the stargate program (both in the military and outside it) that getting a full list of people in the know can’t be easy, and even if you did the list probably wouldn’t be accurate.

Which means. There could totally be an earth based mystery episode plot where there are two groups who both know about the gate but think the other group hasn’t been read in, who spend the entire episode unintentionally sabotaging each other by hiding whatever alien evidence they find and covering for any weirdness.

I’m picturing like, a pair of former SG team members who are now park rangers and an active SG team posing as FBI agents, on a murder mystery in Yosemite or something. And neither group can put together enough evidence to solve the thing because look we thought we’d figured it out but if we’re right there should be a damn ring transport here and there isn’t—

[cut to the ex-SGC park rangers hauling the rings away in a pickup truck the previous night]

Until of course everything culminates in a dramatic shootout, the fake-FBI team pulls zats while the park rangers reveal an alien stun grenade and after the random goa’uld murderer or whatever is down both teams are just like

[redsixwing]

Hey, Bandcamp users. You have probably already heard, but Bandcamp was bought by a music licensing firm, and laid off half its staff "as a cost cutting measure."

I will be downloading everything I purchased from Bandcamp and keeping an eye on it.

Bandcamp Undergoes Ownership Transition with Layoffs and Industry Concerns | Enterprise Wired

In a significant shift of ownership, Bandcamp, the renowned digital music marketplace, has officially transitioned from its previous owner,

[tahthetrickster]

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

[spiribia]

It probably is kind of fun to be a parent bird and find big fat bugs to put in your child’s goalpost mouth. And the more you do it the larger your baby gets, which shows your progress. Mine is reaally big, think I’m going to get a high score this time. It has a unique skin too, I’ve never even seen this one before. Has anyone gotten that one, dark brown and white belly with stripes? It’s not even in my Wrenpedia, it has to be a really special unlock

[spiribia]

I’d appreciate if you didn’t call my child a “parasite”, thank you very much! Typical r/childfree

[kiapet2]

It's commonly accepted in this fandom that humans have extremely fragile bodies in comparison to Eridians, but I think that's actually an oversimplification.

Because while Eridians are incredibly strong and tough on the outside, on the inside they are actually quite fragile:

They have no immune system, so anything that makes it past their enclosed carapace and internal heating will pretty much kill them

They have no natural defenses to radiation of any kind

In general they have very little organic matter so anything that targets their cells directly is quickly lethal

They are partially cold-blooded and live at a very narrow temperature range (about 20 degrees C)

They rely almost entirely on one, highly developed sense and are helpless if deafened (can't even remember the layout of a room)

They are completely helpless while asleep and can't control when that happens

They will forcibly become dormant after eating AND when badly hurt enough (their equivalent of going into shock)

They require more energy to function than humans do, and have very little organic matter to burn in the case of starvation

In contrast, humans:

Have an aggressive immune system and internal mechanisms for dealing with cell damage

Have adrenaline which allows them to temporarily ignore injuries and perform abnormal feats of strength

Are persistence hunters built for economy of movement and capable of extreme levels of endurance

Exist in a very wide range of habitats and on a diverse diet

Are very hardy in general, able to survive massive injuries, lack of sleep, prolonged starvation, and intense environmental conditions if given proper care

The quintessential example of this dichotomy between strength and endurance is the Going Fishing incident in the book: Rocky is able to survive and move in G forces that are killing Grace and to physically wrestle off the chair crushing him, but he collapses from his injuries almost immediately after. Despite being injured himself Grace then carries his 400lb friend up a ladder, is badly burned returning him to his atmosphere, and then proceeds to get some basic medical care, hype himself up on pain meds and keep working (albeit rather badly, lol) while Rocky forcibly sleeps.

The TL:DR is that Eridians are harder to damage, but easier to kill. They're like an rpg character with high armor and low health. I think Rocky would consider Grace to be very delicate at first, only to be blown away by how deceptively tough his friend can be.

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